Medhi D., 34 years old, is well known for its criminal history, and psychiatric. It is stuck in processing criminal record for kidnapping, forcible confinement and weapons charges.

The hostage taker was known to the police. A man armed 34-year-old, known for criminal records and psychiatric, was selected Thursday as a hostage for several hours seven people in a bank branch in the city centre of le Havre, before travelling to the end of the evening.

Medhi D., “has referred to both the plight of palestinian children ‘unjustly imprisoned in Israel, claimed responsibility for the access to the esplanade of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to the Palestinians under 40 years of age, and finally asked someone to bring a scooter type TMax for take flight”, according to the Release. The man, who has acted in “alone” was cut off to 16h45 in the premises of the banking agency of the Bred .

On a video captured by witnesses of the scene, Medhi D. fate only of the establishment, hooded, with a flag of Saudi Arabia, tied like a cape on the back.

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Stuck at the TAJ

“The individual is known to services of the ministry of the Interior, justice and health for acts of ordinary crime that I would call serious, with different sentences”, developed by the minister of the Interior Darmanin in a video statement released Thursday in the late evening. “He was also known for psychiatric history and was finally known as radicalization by the prefecture of Seine-Maritime and the intelligence territorial who followed him”, concluded the minister.

“For the moment, I have no evidence you provide, if only it was someone that was known, and, in particular, for a past psychiatric pretty heavy,” confirmed the prosecutor of the Republic of Haven, François Gosselin. “We’ll see what were really his springs and his motivations. But, a few minutes of his arrest, I am not able to provide you with items detailed,” added the magistrate, to the effect that an investigation had been initiated “in crime, blatant attempt of armed robbery and forcible confinement”.

Stuck at the TAJ (Treatment histories) for kidnapping, forcible confinement and weapons charges, the individual carrying a handgun, and a tear gas canister, had in 2013 taken hostage for more than two hours, four people in a bank CIC Paris before you go to the police. He claimed then social housing for himself and his son. It was already “known to police services and the services of the mental hygiene”, had commented at the time, a responsible police officer.